Yulia Putintseva and Anastasia Zakharova will clash against each other in the 1st round of the Australian Open for the 2nd time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Monday at 4:00 pm on Court 14. In the following lines you can find the head to head analysis and prediction.

Prediction, odds and live streaming

The pick for Tennis Tonic is Yulia Putintseva who should win in 2 sets.

As per the initial odds, Yulia Putintseva is the pick to win this match.
Yulia Putintseva -> 1.192
Anastasia Zakharova -> 4.7

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Prediction and head to head Yulia Putintseva vs. Anastasia Zakharova

This will be the 2nd time that Yulia Putintseva and Anastasia Zakharova face off. The head to head is 1-0 for Putintseva (see full H2H stats), 1-0 on hard.

The last time that they squared off, Putintseva won 6-2 7-5 in the qualifications in Abu Dhabi back in 2023.

Yulia Putintseva

Yulia Putintseva

4 - 2win/loss

Hard
4-2
I Hard
0-0
Rank
35
High
27
WWWWWWLWLW
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 28-15 14-9 9-4 0-2 5-0 0-0
2023 34-27 19-17 13-8 2-0 0-2 0-0
2022 26-21 9-11 15-7 1-1 1-2 0-0
2021 32-24 14-12 12-8 5-2 1-2 0-0
2020 21-11 16-7 4-2 1-2 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 64, Putintseva will start her run at the Australian Open after she played her last match in Hobart where she lost 7-5 7-6(4) to Yuan in the quarter on the 11th of January.

Yulia has a composed 4-2 win-loss record in 2024, 4-2 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Talking about her overall career, Yulia has an overall 416-314 record. She has a positive 198-173 record on hard.

Previously at the Australian Open

Previously, her best result was reaching the 3rd round in 2016, 2020 and 2021. See her history.

Australian Open
Putintseva's Record

Anastasia Zakharova

Anastasia Zakharova

4 - 1win/loss

Hard
4-1
I Hard
0-0
Rank
160
High
133
LWLLWWLLLL
Year Total Hard Clay I.hard Grass Carpet
2024 11-12 7-4 2-5 1-1 1-2 0-0
2023 49-24 41-17 2-2 6-3 0-2 0-0
2022 39-22 26-8 3-10 10-4 0-0 0-0
2021 31-25 13-10 9-8 9-7 0-0 0-0
2020 12-4 0-0 0-0 12-4 0-0 0-0

Ranked no. 191, the Russian reached the 1st round after defeating Jana Kolodynska 6-1 6-3, Rebecca Peterson 6-4 2-6 6-4 and Simona Waltert 7-61 6-1.

In the qualifications, The Russian had a good straight sets win against Waltert (7-61 6-1). During the match Zakharova scored 74 points vs Waltert’s 60. Zakharova was extremely aggressive to blast 34 winners.

Talking about serving, Zakharova scored just 1 ace during the entire match and she committed only 1 double fault for the entire match. Anastasia Zakharova lost the serve 3 times and she saved 5 break points. Furthermore, Zakharova put 85% of her first serves in, winning 59% (34/58) of the points behind her 1st serve and 60% (6/10) on the 2nd serve. Zakharova broke Waltert 5 times after converting 71% of her break points (5/7).

Overall Performance in this tournament

Anastasia started her run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, she has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 54% of the points she played.

Anastasia has an overall 4-1 win-loss record in 2024, 4-1 on hard (See FULL STATS).

Previously at the Australian Open

Previously, her best result was reaching the qualifications in 2022 and 2023. See her history.

Australian Open
Zakharova's Record

Tennis Scores – Australian Open

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